Étienne Le Camus (Surintendant des Bâtiments) explained

Étienne Le Camus
Office:Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi
Term Start:1648
Term End:1656
Predecessor:Cardinal Mazarin
Successor:Antoine de Ratabon
Death Date:1673
Nationality:French

Étienne Le Camus (died 1673)[1] was a French administrative office holder: Maître des Comptes at Grenoble, then Surintendant des Bâtiments from 1648 to 1656.[1] [2] [3] He was the son of a very rich man, Nicolas Le Camus (died 1648), who married Marie Colbert (died 1642), a first cousin to the father of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.[4] [5] Étienne's oldest brother, also named Nicolas Le Camus, was the father of the future cardinal Étienne Le Camus.[5] Other brothers included Antoine Le Camus, who became president of the Chambre des Comptes,[2] and Édouard Le Camus, who became a priest of the Oratoire and commissioned Charles Le Brun to decorate the Church of the Carmelites in the Rue Saint-Jacques.[4] One of his sisters, Marie Le Camus (died 1678), married Michel Particelli d'Hémery, surintendant des finances.[1] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0FAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA34 Moréri 1692, p. 34
  2. Olson 2002, p. 193.
  3. Gordan 1996, p. 134.
  4. Michel 2018, p. 357, note 79.
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0FAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33 Moreri 1692, p. 33